Girl, 9, Gets Hit by Truck, Saves Her Little Sister's Life

3-17-2011 @ 11:15AM
LES HENDRICKSON said...

"Too bad no-one taught her not to lie. If she had actually looked both ways, as she stated, then neither one of them would be hurt. Oops, big hole in story."

Too bad no one taught you not to pass judgement without knowing the full story. Cars move fast and sometimes they can turn a corner without being seen or be moving a little faster than you first thought, sometimes something can block your veiw and you miss it. Truth is, you called this girl a liar when you did not know for sure that was the casae. This is a brave little girl who was willing to sacrifice her life for her younger sister. What have you ever sacrifaced for anyone?

and If you weren't a racist a$$whip you wouldn't be here calling a nine year old a liar.

To Marisol with all due respect:
There is not enought information to classify Keith as a racist. Keith may be black. Remember the story where the young woman threw acid on her face, and blamed someone else. When her story was posted, there were so many people telling others that they were wrong to notice gaps in her story. People were called evil, and thoughtless for their opinions. Well, It turned out all of those negative people were right. Maybe I was wrong to blame the Mother, but after reading the story, and the facts given; it was a valid conclusion.

I guess I'm just a big baby because I cried almost uncontrollably after watching the video. For the people casting blame at either the mother or God, stop it.

i hate my sis.. but that girl is so sweet

There is hope for the world after all. Rare today when someone puts others ahead of themselves. I know money is not the answer to all things but, is there a place contibutions can be made to help this young lady as she deals with the results of her bravery?

To BJHYUTR, people are reading this because of the amazing thing this little girl did for her sister. The Mother is not to blame, it could happen anywhere..a parking lot, even with the mother crossing the street the street with them. Her Mom has taught her well to be loving and caring...not nearly enough of that in this world. Your love life has nothing to do with this post and it was rude to even include it in here...you are obviously one of those self centered people who would think of yourself first. The little sister would have died if it had been YOU with her.

I feel so horrible for this little girl. Words can't even begin to express it. WHY WAS THIS TRUCK DRIVER NOT TICKETED and worse??!! I am outraged!! I am a school bus driver & ALL vehicles including ambulances, fire trucks, & police cars are to stop for our stop signs & flashing red lights. You would be horrified to know how many people ignore this law and speed right through. Just today I had 2 cars run my flashing red lights at the same time; thank God I had enough time to warn the boy that was about to cross the street because he would've been dead. It truly disgusts me how ignorant people are and that they're in such a hurry that they have to put a child's life in danger. What's even worse is that it's so hard to get these people penalized for this. The law needs harsher punishments for those who run a school bus' red flashing lights. Enough is enough!

RG calm down! The bus wasn't even there. The girls were crossing the street to go wait at the bus stop for the bus. It hadn't even arrived yet. Geeeeez! Overeact much?

Pay attention.

Bea, RG has a very valid point which people need to pay attention to. It's true, I see it all the time, people have no regards for the buses and it's scarey. Our schools have a 15mph limit past them at the times when the children are going to or leaving school...some people FLY through these zones. Who do they think they are??? If the girls were crossing to a bus stop I'm willing to bet the area is marked as such and drivers need to be alert and slow down.

They sure do here in Texas & if you DON'T stop, you'd get crucified.

I agree, Rich. A better writer would have said why the driver was not charged--or at least stated that the reason for not charging the driver was not available.

Not to my knowledge Rich but I know that the stop sign pops out once the bus stops to pick up children and ALL vehicles are to stop!

The school buses here in GA do have lights and signs. This article does not say the school bus was there, just that they were crossing the road to catch the school bus. I would assume that since the driver was not charged, that the bus was not there with the flashing lights.

yes Ga's buses have lights. But there are places where the buses stop at one place for children (mostly in a city) instead of stopping at every house.